Padma Venkatraman #TheBridgeHome #BornBehindBars Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Padma Venkatraman #TheBridgeHome #BornBehindBars on X
Author Oceanographer YogaTchr, Walter Award, South Asia Book Awards, Golden & Crystal Kite, Global Read Aloud, nerdies, ALA Notable & more https://t.co/g11VzW0ymX

It Happened on Saturday
Sydney Dunlap
Coming in Feb 2023 from @JollyFishPress a novel that reminds me of @Barbaradee2 ‘s work by author #SydneyDunlap : IT HAPPENED ON SATURDAY provides a frightening insight into how alarmingly easy it can be for a young person to be kidnapped by human traffickers https://t.co/08mgHsok8r
Hardcover, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Bit of Earth
Karuna Riazi
Here’s a bit of reading that’s been “Waiting. Welcoming. Just the way it should be.” always wanted to write my own version of #ASecretGarden & can’t wait to read @KarunaRiazi’s #ABitOfEarth! @GreenwillowBook @HarperCollinsCh @MarthaMihalick https://t.co/LKCfeVnUTX
Hardcover, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hands
Torrey Maldonado
Thriller to be holding HANDS by @TorreyMaldonado in my #Hands ! Sending my latest draft to @nancyrosep by tonight and then going to treat myself to this book which @JackieWoodson says, “cements his grace and gift” https://t.co/aoi7kwuG07
Hardcover, 2023
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Seed in the Sun
Aida Salazar
I read A Seed in the Sun by Aida Salazar https://t.co/Gxd9o3U3PC
Paperback, 2024
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Show Me a Sign (Show Me a Sign, Book 1)
Ann Clare Lezotte
So generous of @LMillerLachmann to send a copy of her novel ROGUE & Show Me A Sign by @annclezotte (pub @Scholastic Blurbed by @erinentrada among others) which just got a great review in @nytimes @nytimesbooks for the #AuthorsTakeAction book drive https://t.co/T6KfUtcFPf
Paperback, 2021
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Moonwalking
Zetta Elliott
I read Moonwalking by Zetta Elliott https://t.co/lDqHCGnZAp
Paperback, 2023
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard
Leslea Newman
On the #DiverseVerse blog, award-winning author @lesleanewman writes about GIVING VOICE TO THE VOICELESS through the powerfully crafted #PersonaPoems in her devastatingly moving book OCTOBER MOURNING: A SONG FOR MATTHEW SHEPARD https://t.co/UrQkWKzvsG https://t.co/iLZK2ytU31
Paperback, 2020
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pedro & Daniel
Federico Erebia
I read Pedro & Daniel by Federico Erebia https://t.co/T6qobD7WaN
Hardcover, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wise & the Wasted: Novel in verse
Chandni Chopra
“Novels in verse have the narrative spine of a novel but the form and muscles of poems” _ @ConfusedNarwhal speaks about her upcoming #novelinverse and #versenovels in general on #diverseverse Check out her guest blog post on #DiverseVerse https://t.co/66pWnBGMut
Paperback, 2021
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger
Margarita Engle
YOUR HEART MY SKY by @margaritapoet begins with such a beautiful quote Thank you for uniting us with your words #diverseverse #AuthorsTakeAction #UseWordsOfLoveNotHate https://t.co/ZqalHPsp5h
Paperback, 2022
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book